Word: wade
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact, for the last year the companies have been putting out so much miscellaneous chaff every week that it is difficult to wade through the frothy odds and ends to find anything of more than trifling musical interest. Even banking on past reputations one is likely to collide with Bob Crosby's excellent band providing background music for a paltry vocal trio. Or one finds Benny Goodman, the synonym for jazz to perhaps too many these days, experimenting to find something new, in dance music, as his publicity announces, and coming up with two of the most profoundly horrisonous...
Thursday. The churchmen rise in protest. Father Edmund A. Walsh of Georgetown University, onetime papal envoy in Russia, says the Soviet Constitution "guarantees nothing but a hollow shell of religious freedom." Methodist Bishop Raymond J. Wade of Detroit, former bishop of the Russian area, says: "Undisputed imprisonment and slaying of tens of thousands of priests . . . together with thousands of closed churches, speak louder than printed words...
...surprised. Tennessee, unconquered by any regular-season opponent during the past three years, has this year lost 13 lettermen as well as its supereminent coach, Major Bob Neyland, U.S.A. If Duke can get by Colgate, Pitt and Georgia Tech on successive Saturdays, Wallace Wade's Blue Devils may be well on the way toward their second trip to the Rose Bowl in four years...
...flicker you might expect. It isn't even a new version of Hollywood's favorite pastime, the wacky bedroom farce. Instead, it's a long, drawn-out version (without technicolor, too) of an eighteenth century Fitzpatrick Travel Talk. Franchot Tone, Carol Bruce, Walter Brennan, and a bunch of others wade wearily through an hour or so of an even wearier script. Waves, shipwrecks, Indians, and cold-blooded villains don't help much, except perhaps to convince you that the picture's point is about as obscure as its title...
...reputation for being one of a rare Army breed: a first-rate Army politician who is also a first-rate soldier. His main job perforce is at his desk in headquarters at Quarry Heights (Balboa), but he gets out often into the field, in rainy season can wade and ride the muddy trails with the toughest...